The Oxford History of Australia: 1901-1942, the succeeding ageIn 1901 the separate Australian colonies came together in a Commonwealth. Institutions were fashioned to meet the needs and aspirations of a nation, markets extended, industries enlarged. Over the next forty years Australians pursued schemes of material and social progress through war and economic crisis. This book locates these events within their international and imperial context. Like other regions of white settlement, Australia prospered as a pastoral and agricultural producer - yet it aspired to industrial self-sufficiency. It drew its financial and human capital from Britain and was bound to the parent country by bonds of trade, culture and sentiment - yet it yearned for autonomous nationhood. Four decades of endeavour merely demonstrated the extent of its dependence. This is a narrative history. It draws on the experience of diverse individuals to illustrate larger patterns, and it traces links between social, economic and political processes. But above all, it proceeds from the conviction that the historian must tell a story with purpose. |
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... tion of ( ' 000s ) As propor- tion of state ( % ) state ( % ) Sydney 496 37 648 47 Melbourne 478 40 593 45 Adelaide 141 39 169 41 Brisbane 119 24 141 23 Perth 61 33 107 38 Hobart 35 20 40 21 was the very aggregation of people in the ...
... tion of ( ' 000s ) As propor- tion of state ( % ) state ( % ) Sydney 496 37 648 47 Melbourne 478 40 593 45 Adelaide 141 39 169 41 Brisbane 119 24 141 23 Perth 61 33 107 38 Hobart 35 20 40 21 was the very aggregation of people in the ...
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... tion of trade unions and preference in employment for their members - and looked to parliament as one means of their fulfilment . To these bread - and - butter concerns they added by 1905 further objectives , some indicating the means ...
... tion of trade unions and preference in employment for their members - and looked to parliament as one means of their fulfilment . To these bread - and - butter concerns they added by 1905 further objectives , some indicating the means ...
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... tion . It was , he said , ' a sort of government of the feeble for the greedy'.4 This was a jaundiced description of an adminis- tration that was trying to juggle the claims of its clients while holding expenditure within tight limits ...
... tion . It was , he said , ' a sort of government of the feeble for the greedy'.4 This was a jaundiced description of an adminis- tration that was trying to juggle the claims of its clients while holding expenditure within tight limits ...
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Aboriginals Adelaide AEHR Alfred Deakin Allen and Unwin Angus and Robertson ANU Press Anzac Austra Australian Bank Billy Hughes bourne Britain British Broken Hill Bruce Butlin C.E.W. Bean Canberra capital Casey cent chap colonial Commonwealth Country Party Deakin Depression Development domestic economic election electoral Empire employers established farm farmers federal finance Geoffrey Blainey Giblin Hale and Iremonger House Hughes Imperial increased industrial John Kalgoorlie L.F. Giblin Labor government Labor Party Labour History labour movement land Latham League London Lyons Manufacturing ment Menzies million Nationalist Neilson parliament PhD thesis political premier prime minister production protection Queensland quoted Royal Commission rural Scullin settlement social society South Australia South Wales St Lucia Sydney tariff Tasmania tion trade tralia unemployed unions University of Melbourne Victoria wage wage-earners Western Australia wheat women workers workforce